On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Luther Woodrum wrote: ... > 2. I finally got all the bios update files for the motherboard, > 2 of which are new, levels f6 and f7. > > 3. Using a usb fd, I flashed bios level f6. > After that, following the directions, I restored the bios > optimized defaults. > Then it wouldn't boot. 1 long and 3 shorts told me that it was > a graphics problem. Black screen. > Using a PCI video card instead of the PCI express cured that > problem.
In newer BIOSes I've seen selection for bus type as the default to use for looking for a videocard device, such as "AGP" vs "PCI" -- it's a simplistic hope, but maybe you ran into something similar and the default setting is something else than PCI-E. ... > Maybe I'll flash the f7 level too, after I see what it fixes. The manufacturer of the motherboard often have notes concerning what the new BIOS versions fix or what new features they add. There are sometimes fixes that aren't listed in those notes, but they're good to have a read through anyway. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jun 3 - TBD Jul 1 - TBD Aug 5 - TBD
